We're not collaborating enough because our contracts are too confrontational

By Mark Castle2019-05-07T05:00:00

A more collaborative way of working makes for better-run, more efficient projects – and it all starts with how you word the contract, says Mark Castle

It’s been a common refrain on these pages that there’s not enough collaboration in the construction sector.

Collaboration is not merely a nice thing to have. Finding better ways of achieving it between clients, consultants, contractors and the supply chain is at the heart of changes that need to take place if we are to transform the sector and escape operating on wafer-thin margins.

Nowhere is this lack of collaborative working more obvious than through a legal lens, where we see a range of contractual practices that actively inhibit a spirit of collaboration.

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